YoungUpstarts

JULY 24, 2019

Take Ndubuisi Ekekwe, founder of Zenvus. In Uganda and Zambia it’s as low as 15% saying it would stop them starting a business , whereas in the US this figure stands at 34%. The agriculture technology sector, or agtech, in Africa is booming and its entrepreneurs think very long term and very big. But why is this?

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SiliconHills

MAY 9, 2013

Beyonic founder Luke Kyohere, from Uganda, said 20 percent of the $150 [.] The post Beyonic Wins the IBM Global Entrepreneur Pitch Competition appeared first on SiliconHills.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2012

Alliy is managing partner of the Savannah Fund , a $10 million fund that will soon begin investing in technology startups in East Africa, including Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. Savannah Fund co-founder Paul Bragiel is a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and co-founder of i/o Ventures.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2012

Alliy is managing partner of the Savannah Fund , a $10 million fund that will soon begin investing in technology startups in East Africa, including Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. Savannah Fund co-founder Paul Bragiel is a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and co-founder of i/o Ventures.

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Hunter Walker

FEBRUARY 15, 2014

Our company started several years ago when our founders, Kirsten Dickerson and Sophia Lin, noticed that non-profits were training these women in design skills. The women we work with come from various at-risk backgrounds- some are HIV+, some formerly trafficked, some from extreme poverty. So Raven + Lily was born.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 20, 2012

Alliy is managing partner of the Savannah Fund , a $10 million fund that will soon begin investing in technology startups in East Africa, including Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya. Savannah Fund co-founder Paul Bragiel is a Silicon Valley serial entrepreneur and co-founder of i/o Ventures.

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View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

I sat down with David Spandorfer , co-founder of Janji , a running apparel company, to talk about the intersection of an everyday need, water, and an act of physical activity that almost everyone can do, running. This past fall we did Libya, the season before that we did Uganda, and we’re going to be doing Cambodia in 2019.

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